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Ohio gun owner to home invader: "If you move, you're gonna go to the morgue."

7:00am Wednesday, June 05, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WTOV (NBC Steubenville) and WPXI (NBC Pittsburgh) reported this week that a Steubenville, OH woman was able to exercise her Second Amendment and self-defense rights to protect herself during a home invasion. From WPXI : Police arrested a burglar in the act Thursday morning after the owner of the home he targeted held him at gunpoint. Authorities said Tammy Takach was sleeping...

Zanesville man chooses the winning number in the Ultimate AR Raffle

3:00pm Tuesday, June 04, 2013
When the winning number was drawn for the recent Ultimate AR Raffle , we figured we'd hear from the winner right away. The prize, after all, was an AR-15 with a Pelican case, Eotech tactical holographic sight, Magpul accessories, and more, valued at nearly $3,000. But the Memorial Day weekend came and went and we didn't hear from anyone. Did we have a winner? Yes, we double and triple checked the...

The truth about kids and guns

7:00am Tuesday, June 04, 2013
by Larry S. Moore Cynthia Tucker is the latest liberal journalist to use the death of a child to promote the agenda of gun control. In case you missed it, the Sparks family lost their child in a preventable gun accident. Since then the family has been dragged through the major media outlets as an example of why gun safety is a child safety issue and calls for more laws. The left-leaning media...

Gun control laws target law-abiding gun owners, not criminals

3:00pm Monday, June 03, 2013
by Jeff Knox Dustin Reininger is serving a five-year sentence with a three-year minimum before he's eligible for parole. His crime? Pulling off the highway to get some rest during a long drive. Reininger, a veteran of both the Army and the Air Force, and a former police officer, was moving from Maine back to Texas, but only made it as far as New Jersey. He got tired and parked behind a building...

We're Renaming the Armed Teacher Training Program ... Introducing "FASTER"

7:00am Monday, June 03, 2013
by Jim Irvine Last December, Buckeye Firearms Foundation made world-wide news with the introduction of our Armed Teacher Training Program. The program has now been up and running for several months, and along the way we've received some helpful feedback from educators as to how we can best communicate about the program to others in their profession. Some are opposed to the idea of "guns in...

WKYC Investigator Tom Meyer falls short of the truth in report on felons obtaining hunting licenses

3:00pm Friday, May 31, 2013
by Larry S. Moore WKYC (NBC Cleveland) Investigator Tom Meyer screamed the headlines "Hundreds of convicted felons in Ohio -- many of them violent -- are getting state licenses to hunt, even though it's illegal for them to have guns..." . This is the latest alarmist reporting aimed at gun owners and hunters. It's the kind of reporting that we've come to expect - long on hype and short on real...

Review: Attorney General DeWine's School Shooting DVD

7:00am Friday, May 31, 2013
by Jim Irvine Attorney General Mike DeWine has mailed a two-disc DVD set to all Ohio schools. The DVD is titled, "School Shootings: How to be aware, prepare, and be a first responder in a crisis." It covers educator training presented by the Attorney General's Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA). In his introduction, AG DeWine notes that he is "sorry that we have to do this." He notes...

Op-Ed: President Obama: AR-15 Salesman of the Decade

3:00pm Thursday, May 30, 2013
by C. D. Michel Barack Obama may be the most effective firearm salesman since Samuel Colt. In the wake of recent tragedies, the Obama administration took gun control as its new mission, advocating everything from useless "universal" background checks to once again banning so-called "assault weapons." The unintended but completely predictable side effect of Obama's posturing has been to cause your...

USSA: Questions Emerge Over HSUS and the IRS Scandal

7:00am Thursday, May 30, 2013
The ongoing IRS scandal that is hitting Washington has yet another twist with new questions surrounding the number one group on our Dirty Dozen List, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The latest twist comes after the person at the heart of the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner, was found to have ties to this anti-hunting organization. Lerner is the Director of the IRS's tax-exempt...

U.S. District Court Dismisses Lawsuit to Ban Traditional Ammunition

3:00pm Tuesday, May 28, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today dismissed a lawsuit brought by the radical anti-hunting Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups demanding the Environmental Protection Agency ban traditional ammunition containing lead components. Traditional ammunition represents 95 percent of the U.S. market and is the staple ammunition for target shooters...

Project Appleseed: Show the world what the shooting sports are all about!

7:00am Tuesday, May 28, 2013
An-Sofie Kesteleyn is a photo journalist from Belgium. She will be starting a tour of rural America on June 2nd, 2013 to photograph youngsters learning about the shooting sports, and our American Heritage of shooting. Her Journey will begin at Dillon Sportsman Center about an hour East of Columbus Ohio, 15min North of Zanesville. RWVA (the Revolutionary War Veterans Assoc.) will be conducting its...

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: In 1788, Ohio law required ALL men aged 16-50 to bear arms

7:00am Monday, May 27, 2013
(Originally posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer and on this website July 25, 2003) Ohio Moments Soldiers fined 50 cents for lack of weaponry On July 25, 1788, the first Ohio law to establish and regulate a militia was published in Marietta. It mandated all men between 16 and 50 perform military duty. They were required to arm themselves with a musket and bayonet, a cartridge box, powder horn, one...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg Uses Commencement Speech to Push Gun Control, Rails Against ‘Extremist’ NRA

3:00pm Friday, May 24, 2013
by Alicia Powe America's most dangerous Mayor used his commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio as a political opportunity to slam members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation. "Have courage to act on your hopes, don't be paralyzed by your fears," Mayor Bloomberg told the graduating class. "Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your ideas. That...

"Semper Paratus": A good motto for you, too

7:00am Friday, May 24, 2013
by Erin Marshall The United States Coast Guard motto is "Semper Paratus" which means "Always Ready." The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared." What does it mean to be ready or prepared? I am not talking about stockpiling MREs and canned foods. I'm not talking about building a bomb shelter or hoarding ammo. I am talking about the state of being ready or being prepared. I believe there are two main...

More Turkey Hunters Successful in 2013 Spring Season

3:00pm Thursday, May 23, 2013
COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio's wild turkey hunters checked 18,391 birds during the 2013 spring hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The state total is a 4 percent increase from 2012, when hunters harvested 17,646 birds. The 2013 harvest total is a combination of the youth turkey season and the spring turkey season, April 20-May 19. Ashtabula County again led the...

Headline: Advocates put police, gun laws to the test

7:00am Thursday, May 23, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WHIO-TV (CBS Dayton) is reporting on a lawsuit that has been filed against the City of Riverside after an incident involving the arrest of a man who was open carrying a firearm. From the article : Advocates of "open carry" of weapons are testing police on their knowledge of state laws and then posting the results on the internet. The most recent case involved a Tipp City man, Roy...

Op-Ed: Unintended Victims - the most vulnerable among us are most harmed by ill-conceived gun control laws

3:00pm Wednesday, May 22, 2013
by C.D. Michel She went home from the gun store to endure a ten day cooling off period before she could take her new gun home. But her estranged husband, the subject of a restraining order, was not cooling off about their pending divorce. That same evening she was raped, beaten nearly to death, and their son was almost killed by the man he once called "Daddy." Every law has unintended...

The Gun Control Lie

7:00am Wednesday, May 22, 2013
by Jeff Knox Gun control advocates are compulsive liars. They have to be because the truth doesn't support their agenda. Even the names of gun control groups – suggesting "violence policy," "violence prevention," and "gun safety" – are all lies. And the term "gun control" itself is a lie. Virtually everything coming from gun control advocates today is a lie. I'm not talking about simple...

Confiscate! Confiscate! Confiscate!

3:00pm Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Hell hath no fury like an anti-gunner who doesn't get her way on gun control. The Star-Ledger reported last Friday that after a closed-door hearing on gun control in the New Jersey Senate the previous day, three state senators--believed to be Democrats Loretta Weinberg, Sandra Cunningham and Linda Greenstein--were caught on tape, complaining that bills introduced in the Garden State--including...

Support Knife Rights and win knives, guns, and more - over $100,000 in prizes!

7:00am Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Knives are one of mankind's oldest and most commonly used tools. Elsewhere in the world, many of the knives sold and used daily in the United States are illegal or severely restricted and the restrictions are growing every day. Even in the U.S., efforts to demonize knives and to place more restrictions on knives are becoming more commonplace. Without a dedicated grassroots organization to protect...

Obama Administration to Sign U.N. Arms Trade Treaty "In the Very Near Future"

3:00pm Monday, May 20, 2013
As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining. The vote in the General Assembly pushed the treaty process forward after negotiations twice failed to deliver on the goal of developing the treaty by consensus. The Obama Administration is expected to sign...

3D Printing is Way Scarier Than Plastic Guns

7:00am Saturday, May 18, 2013
Editor's Note: Today's feature is reproduced with permission from http://www.shellypalmer.com/2013/05/3d-printing-is-way-scarier-than-plas... . We might not agree with Shelly's characterization of printing guns as the "dark side of the technology" but we agree wholeheartedly with his description and assessment on the future of 3D printing. by Shelly Palmer Ever the publicity hound, Sen. Chuck...

The Terrorists Won in Boston

3:00pm Friday, May 17, 2013
by Jeff Knox That demented, hate-filled terrorists could build bombs and detonate them in a crowded public place should not have come as news to anyone. That's what terrorists have been doing around the world for decades - centuries. That it could be done in the U.S. by people we had welcomed with open arms, should also have been no surprise. Islamist extremists have been promising, and...

Attorney General Mike DeWine denies backing away from comments made in support of arming school employees

7:00am Friday, May 17, 2013
by Chad D. Baus and Jim Irvine This week, an Associated Press article by Julie Carr Smyth, entitled " Ohio's state school board urged not to arm teachers ," hit the wires and shot around the state and across the country. The article is making waves because, according to Carr Smyth, Attorney General Mike DeWine made comments at a State Board of Education meeting that go against his previously-...

Firearm Safety and Conservation Are Topics of Free Video-for-Schools Campaign from NSSF®

3:00pm Thursday, May 16, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® has launched its annual nationwide offer to schools nationwide to receive--free of charge--educational videos that teach children about firearm safety and wildlife conservation. NSSF, the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, has been a leader in firearm safety and conservation education for...

Rep. Bob Hagan's gun control bill exposes impotence of "protection orders" and need for victim education

7:00am Thursday, May 16, 2013
by Chad D. Baus State Representative Bob Hagan (D), who recently announced that his candidacy for U.S. Senate is grounded in his anger that Sen. Rob Portman (R) stood up for gun owners' constitutional rights in recent votes against gun control, has apparently figured out that support for gun control is his ticket to gaining media attention for his fledgling candidacy. This week, Hagan introduced...

Op-Ed: Accidents Don’t Happen

3:00pm Wednesday, May 15, 2013
by C. D. Michel Teaching Americans gun safety is like teaching politicians how to lie. It comes naturally. Despite the National Rifle Association (NRA)’s high profile political activities, gun safety training and marksmanship comprise the overwhelming majority of its activities. Roughly 80% of its budget goes to these types of programs. Gun control organizations, recognizing a way to rebuild...

Letters of gratitude for Sen. Rob Portman's pro-gun votes pour in

7:00am Wednesday, May 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Last week I wrote about the intense media effort to force Sen. Rob Portman into changing his vote on gun control legislation in the Senate. I pointed out that journalists, gun ban extremists and uninformed or misled letter-to-the-editor writers continued to use a discredited statistic which claimed that 91% of people preferred that that gun control bill had passed, all in an...

Gun control is about PEOPLE control

3:00pm Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. -Frederick Douglass in a speech delivered on November 15, 1867 Recently, African American activists brought together by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education at the National Press Club discussed their support for the Second Amendment, recounted the history of the NRA as an organization that fought to...

New Government Report Undercuts Obama Anti-Gun Agenda

7:00am Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Things haven't been very good for President Obama lately. [Last] week, Congress heard from witnesses concerning his administration's fatal failures related to the September 11, 2012, attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Not buying into the make-believe nonsense that Obama has improved America's standing among terrorists devoted to our destruction, jihadists recently attacked the Boston...

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